Riot Fest Toronto lineup announced!
Music News | May 6th, 2014
Riot Fest is one of the best music festivals in the world (well at least in Chicago), and they announced the initial Toronto lineup this morning. Toronto’s Riot Fest will take place on September 6th-7th at Downsview Park. Some of the notable bands announced include: Buzzcocks, Death Cab For Cutie, Paul Weller, Social Distortion, The National, The Dropkick Murphys, Brand New, Glassjaw, Alkaline Trio, Rise Against and more. See the full lineup below if you can’t read the the tiny photo.
The lineup so far:
City and Colour
Metric
The National
Billy Talent
Rise Against
The Flaming Lips
Social Distortion
Death Cab For Cutie
Death From Above 1979
Brand New
Paul Weller
Awolnation
Stars
The Head and The Heart
Dropkick Murphys
Die antwoord
Tokyo Police Club
The New Ponographers
Bring Me The Horizon
Taking Back Sunday
The Afghan Whigs
Alkaline Trio
Glassjaw
Bob Mould
Thurston Moore
Buzzcocks
Clutch
New Found Glory
Circa Survive
Manchester Orchestra
Lucero
Title Fight
Bad suns
Citizen
Lemuria
Mounties
Pup
Nostalghia
Radkey
Rubblebucket
Pentimento
Broncho
The Hotelier
Laura Stevenson
The Beaches
Somos
Restorations
Say Yes
Seaway
Wounds
Little big League
and more….
In my mind, there isn’t a type of band like The Replacements in this lineup; it’s still a decent one if you want to trek up to Canada. Can there be a festival where Flaming Lips and The National aren’t playing it? But would I go and cover it if I lived in Toronto, yeah probably.
Tickets on sale here, on Saturday, May 10th at 10 a.m EDT.
